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  WiMAX World EMEA Conference and Expo
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
8:50

Recap of Day One

9:00

WiMAX Strategy for Expanding Broadband in Emerging Markets in EMEA
Majed Sifri, CEO, Redline Communications

9:30

WIMAX for Mobile Internet in Europe
Nick Ring, Vice President, International Development, Clearwire

10:00

Mobile WiMAX to Drive Rapid Broadband Adoption in Pakistan
Naeem Zamindar, Vice President, Strategy & Head of Broadband Business Division, Mobilink

10:30 Networking Break
10:45

Nationwide WiMAX Deployment and Evolution to Mobile WiMAX in Slovenia
Dr. Mitja Stular, CTO, Mobitel (Telekom Slovenia Group)
Wolfgang Mack, Chief Marketing Officer, Telsima Corporation
Free with Expo Pass

Expo Floor and WiMAX Solutions Theatre Opens at 11:00
11:15

Fireside Chat: Financing WiMAX Network Deployments During the Global Credit Crunch
Moderated by Berge Ayvazian, Yankee Group
Roland Fohn, Executive Director, Media, Communications & Entertainment, GE Commercial Finance
Dr. Armen Sarkissian, Founding President and Chairman of Eurasia House International in London
Torsten Thiele, Head of Telecoms Finance, Investec Bank
Free with Expo Pass

12:00 Lunch on Expo Floor
14:00

Expanding High Speed Broadband to homes and offices in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ahmad Al Sindi, CEO, Atheeb

Track
Name &
Leader

WiMAX Operator Strategies and Deployments in EMEA
Caroline Gabriel
Rethink Research

WiMAX Technology Ecosystem
Philip Marshall
Yankee Group
4G Network Planning
and Business Modeling

Berge Ayvazian
Yankee Group
Innovations in Wireless and Mobile Broadband
Haig Sarkissian
WiMAX 20/20
14:30

WiMAX in Middle East
Moderator: Adlane Fellah, CEO & Founder, Maravedis

Panelists: Rabih Daher, Chairman of Broadmax Holding, GABS Group

Khaled Ismail, GSM Services Officer, Orascom Telecom

Tony Chaya, Operations Manager, Pesco Telecom

Underlying WiMAX Technology Ecosystem
Philip Marshall, Vice President, Enabling Technologies, Yankee Group

Oded Melamed, CEO, Altair Semiconductor

Dave Gelvin, President, Tranzeo Wireless Technologies USA

Tracy R. Trent, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman & Co-Founder. Proximetry, Inc.

The Road to 4G
Rao Yallapragada, Sr. Director, Qualcomm Mobile Broadband
Powering the Mobile Broadband Revolution
Patrick Smith, Chairman, Wavesat
15:30

Africa: The Sleeping Giant for WiMAX
Moderator: Caroline Gabriel, Research Director, Rethink Research Associates

Panelists: Uzoma Udemba, Chairman & CEO, TrendTV, Communications Trends (Nigeria); GDC Coordinator, African Operators

Roger Diogo, People Wireless Africa

Integrated WiMAX and WiFi Mesh Networks
Sai Subramanian, Director, Marketing for Broadband Wireless Business, Cisco

Emerging Market Licensed and Unlicensed Implementation Case Studies
Moderator: Berge Ayvazian, Chief Strategy Officer, Yankee Group

Panelists: Manish Gupta, Vice President of Marketing & Alliances, Aperto Networks

Walter Groppi, CEO, Bluwan

Mr. Rakesh Kukreja, Managing Director, Simbanet

Krzysztof Iwaniuk, Mayor of Terespol Community, Republic of Poland
Mobile WiMAX Personal Broadband Business Case
Moderator: Haig Sarkissian, WiMAX 20/20

Panelists: Bill Gough, Telecom Group Manager, Systems Marketing, Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Riccardo Vicari, Chief Sales Officer, Servista

Peter Jerry Sørensen, CEO, Danske Telecom
16:30 Conference Concludes - Final Networking Break on Expo Hall
17:00 Expo Hall Closes

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